 
     
Old Chester Electric Power Station
The electric lighting station lit the city street, rows, shop and houses of Chester at 6d per unit in 1896.
Owned by Chester Corporation, the building was designed by I. Matthews Jones.
Three stream-driven generators provided direct current, saving reserve power to batteries.
After consulting with the famous physicist, Lord Kelvin, the station was opened under Professor Kennedy and later run by the city electrical engineers F. Thursfield (until 1904) and S. E. Britton (Until 1946).
Electricity was in heavy demand so that the station as soon enlarged and, in 1913 linked to the new hydro-electric power station by the Old Dee Bridge. By 1923 Queensferry power station took over electric supply with converters at this station.
The front of the building was saved by the canal basin forum and the people of Chester in 1999. It was renovated by George Wimpey North West LTD.
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